We’re excited to announce that XAUt0, the omnichain deployment of Tether Gold, is now live on Avalanche, the high-speed Layer 1 built for scaling next-generation finance.

With blazing-fast finality, low fees, and a thriving DeFi ecosystem, Avalanche offers the perfect home for gold onchain. Now that XAUt0 is natively deployed on Avalanche, users can hold and move gold-backed assets with the same ease and interoperability as other tokenized assets.

Avalanche is built for speed, scale, and seamless user experience. It combines instant finality with robust security, making it an ideal destination for real-world assets like tokenized gold.

Here’s what makes Avalanche an ideal home for XAUt0:

• Instant Finality: Transactions on Avalanche are confirmed in under a second, reducing settlement risk and unlocking use cases where speed and certainty are essential.

• Scalable, Modular Architecture: Avalanche’s multi-chain design allows for specialized execution environments for different financial assets and application-specific logic.

• Low-Cost Transactions: Avalanche offers consistently low fees, making it affordable to transfer and interact with high-value assets, even during periods of network activity.

• Robust DeFi Ecosystem: Avalanche supports a vibrant and growing network of DeFi protocols, all of which can now natively integrate XAUt0.

• EVM Compatibility: Any Ethereum-based DeFi protocol can integrate XAUt0 with minimal changes, simplifying access for builders and users alike.

XAUt0 is much more than another tokenized representation of gold. It’s a fully backed, physically redeemable asset issued by Tether and deployed with omnichain composability in mind.

Each Tether Gold (XAUt) token represents ownership of one troy ounce of London Bullion Market Association-certified gold, securely stored in a dedicated Swiss vault. XAUt0 brings all of this together into a single, borderless gold asset that is natively deployed on Avalanche.

With XAUt0, Avalanche users can now easily:

• Save in an asset that resists inflation and global volatility

• Integrate gold into new and existing DeFi strategies

• Redeem their digital gold for physical bullion if desired

And several major DeFi players are already getting in on the action. DEXs like LFJ, Pharaoh Exchange, and Blackhole are among the first to launch XAUt0 / USDT pools, and we’re collaborating with Ava Labs to incentivize liquidity across these pools.

Avalanche’s growing DeFi ecosystem has long embraced real-world assets as part of its mission to build more open and inclusive financial systems.

As more real-world assets are tokenized and freed up via deep, omnichain liquidity, assets like XAUt0 will increasingly serve as the foundation for the next wave of decentralized finance.